World Wrestling Championships 1970

The 1970 World Wrestling Championships took place from July 4 to 11, 1970 in Edmonton . It was wrestled in both Greco-Roman and free styles . The wrestlers were divided into ten weight classes.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from July 4th to 6th, 1970. The best wrestler in the GDR was Heinz-Helmut Wehling , who took fourth place in the -62 kg weight class.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Gheorghe Berceanu	Vladimir Subkov	Bernard Szczepański
-52 kg	Petar Kirov	Saburo Sugiyama	Boško Marinko
-57 kg	Janos Varga	David Hazewinkel	Rustam Kaskow
-62 kg	Hideo Fujimoto	Slavko Koletić	Georgi Markov
-68 kg	Roman Rurua	Simion Popescu	Tanoue Takashi
-74 kg	Viktor Igumenov	Werner Schröter	Petros Galaktopoulos
-82 kg	Anatoly Nasarenko	Petar Krumov	Milan Nenadić
-90 kg	Valery Resanzew	Czesław Kwieciński	Venko Zinzarow
-100 kg	Per Svensson	Ferenc Kiss	Nikolai Yakovenko
+100 kg	Anatoly Roschtschin	József Csatári	Nicolae Martinescu

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	5	1	2
2	Hungary	1	2	0
3	Bulgaria	1	1	2
4th	Romania	1	1	1
	Japan	1	1	1
6th	Sweden	1	0	0
7th	Yugoslavia	0	1	2
8th	Poland	0	1	1
9	BR Germany	0	1	0
	United States	0	1	0
11	Greece	0	0	1

Freestyle

The freestyle competitions took place from July 9th to 11th, 1970. The best German wrestler was Adolf Seger with a fifth place in the -74 kg weight class.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Ibrahim Javadi	Akihiko Umeda	Roman Dmitriev
-52 kg	Ali Rıza Alan	Baju Baew	Mohammad Ghorbani
-57 kg	Hideaki Yanagida	Jae-Woon An	Jantscho Patrikow
-62 kg	Shamseddin Seyed Abbasi	Kiyoshi Abe	Michael Young
-68 kg	Abdollah Movahed	Ismail Juszeinow	Bobby Douglas
-74 kg	Wayne Wells	Mohammad Farhangdoust	Standard Shaagi Sereeter
-82 kg	Yuri Shachmuradov	Tatsou Sasaki	Vasile Iorga
-90 kg	Gennady Strachow	Bill Harlow	Makoto Kamada
-100 kg	Vladimir Gulyutkin	Larry Kristoff	Gıyasettin Yılmaz
+100 kg	Alexander Medved	Osman Duraliew	Peter Germer

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	4th	0	1
2	Iran	3	1	1
3	Japan	1	3	1
4th	United States	1	2	2
5	Turkey	1	0	1
6th	Bulgaria	0	3	1
7th	South Korea	0	1	0
8th	German Democratic Republic	0	0	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1
	Romania	0	0	1

Web links

• Complete medal table (Greco-Roman men ) at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Complete medal table (freestyle men ) at the Institute for Applied Training Science